I have been searching for a few days how to print PDF documents on the client side. I tried some code shown online, but that yielded no result.
On further search, some says Adobe doesn't allow such method, or can't be done because of security issues, etc ...
I have following questions:
Whole scenario of printing PDF on the client side silently and issues related to it.
Any genuine approach to achieve it? OR other alternative?
I need detailed yes or no for my management.
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We are automating scripts with Selenium, part of which is to sign a document with document. There is a docusign community forum but we just have a demo docusign account with one user, and I do not think that can send email to the community, so I thought I could ask here.
We are getting the envelope ID of a document, and then requesting the page and logging in. This is the URL:
https://XXXdemo.docusign.com/documents/details/{ENVID}"
(I used XXX here for the first three characters for security). Also, I replace {ENVID} with the actual envelope ID.
This has been working, and still is kind of working. We do signs and advances, etc. Often now, in the middle of a sequence of steps (signing, advancing, etc) we get the login page again and the error message: Invalid Managed Token ID and / or secret
(see attached image).
I did talk to some developers who told me to clear the cache before running the test. The only problem is that our Selenium tests (which are running in Chrome) start with a completely new, empty cache, bookmarks, etc.
I thought that maybe the envelope id was expiring, but a developer said he did not believe that was the case. Any suggestions what could be happening?
Specifics:
- We create a document in Salesforce and send it to Docusign for signature.
- We are using Selenium, Java and the latest version of Chrome.
- This appears to happen at different Docusign places, and sometimes not at all. Often happens when clicking "sign"
- A google search for the error message returned only two results, neither of which was too helpful.
- The picture below is after having signed in and running for a while.
Is there any API available by Adobe that would enable me to convert Office Documents (docx, xlsx, pptx, etc.) files to a PDF file format?
I would prefer to use .NET to do so, but if I have to I can resort to C/C++.
I've already tried using Adobe SDK, but it seems to me it works to automate the Acrobat application instead of giving me access to underlying functionality. If it's possible and anyone would care to give me an example, I'd be very thankful - after many hours googling it I was unable to find a good answer (a lot of samples doing the contrary, though - converting from PDF to Word).
One last thing, I need it to be an library from Adobe. So, PDFCreator, BCL EasyPDF, Aspose.Words/Cells/Slides etc., unfortunately, won't help me.
UPDATE 1:
I decided to ask this question in the forum because, first, I can't believe that Adobe wouldn't have a library to do this; Of course, it may be the case, but it's very strange.
UPDATE 2:
I also looked already into AdobePDFMakerX.Word interface. I tried calling the CreatePDF(string in, string out) interface, but to no avail. It always returns false, and there is no error description that I can use.
want to convert doc file to pdf file using Adobe pdf service api
In short it has two parts:
make a post request ( providing require parameters ) and from header take x-request-id
make a get request ( providing require parameters ) and as responce you will get your pdf documet
it is working fine
Are you sure Aspose.Words didn't work for you? I tested the below code sample and works fine.
string filePdf = #"D:\\Projects\\original.pdf";
string fileDocX = #"D:\\Projects\\New.docx";
Aspose.Words.Document doc = new Aspose.Words.Document(fileDocX);
doc.Save(filePdf, Aspose.Words.SaveFormat.Pdf);
I would like having a way to trigger Thunderbird, from an external script, into displaying a particular message in a particular folder.
If it were Firefox, say, I would use firefox -new-tab http://some-URL, and an already running Firefox (or a new one if none) would nicely fetch and display URL. But I found no way to do something equivalent with Thunderbird, neither on the Thunderbird site or through existing extensions, and even after some furious Googling around, which I attempted more than once!
One problem, compared to a plain URL, is the need some notation for selecting a message. Short of a better solution, I wrote a script which knows folder:SOME-FOLDER:ORDINAL, and behaves like an extension of xdg-open. My tool inserts a proper prefix and a few .sbd as needed within the SOME-FOLDER part to turn it into an absolute Thunderbird file reference, and ORDINAL picks a message in that folder. My tool then grabs the message, heuristically converts it into HTML file, and then, directs a Web browser to the resulting file (and if :ORDINAL is not given, it processes the whole folder instead, yielding an HTML index and many linked messages).
My current tool helps a bit at saving message references in other documents and efficiently retrieving them later, but I handle a copy of the Thunderbird message, and not the original. So if I want to delete it, refile it in another Thunderbird folder, and do other similar operation, I still have to go to Thunderbird, interactively find my way again to the wanted message before I can handle it, and this, is not efficient. What I'm dreaming of is a way to get rid of all my HTML conversion and browser trickery, but still keep the pseudo-URL paradigm and pseudo xdg-open interface, to directly force Thunderbird into the correct folder, with the wanted message correctly displayed.
In previous email readers I used (Emacs RMAIL and then Gnus, and Mutt as well later), such things could be managed, and I heavily used such capabilities in scripts. I am astonished, surprised, even a bit dismayed, by the apparent weakness of Thunderbird as a scriptable mail reader. Am I missing something evident? Any avenue or suggestion?
François
P.S. Of course, I agree that using ORDINAL is not very clever. It might mean a different message if the folder get some messages added or deleted. This is a lesser bad. A better but potentially heavier notation might use Message-ID values, but then, an index would also be needed to find the Thunderbird folder containing each message.
There seems to be some way to do it since Google Desktop supported it according to this thread - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=584542. Perhaps try installing Google Desktop and see what kind of hyperlink its using?
I'll add Outlook supports using external hyperlinks using the outlook: naming scheme, for example outlook:Inbox or outlook:0000000007A2379547B0624691F4FB2E5468A0D7642E2000. See http://www.davidtan.org/create-hyperlinks-to-outlook-messages-folders-contacts-events/ for more info.
Note: I am not sure if this is better here, or at superuser, but since it concerns the poppler library, I would assume here, because people here are more likely to know how it works.
Software: iPDF 2.12 + Poppler 2.11 (Last commit 2006-12-12) for Irex Iliad. Sources are here.
Problem Documents: Sciam digital PDFs (any of them, since all are produced the same way).
The document will load fine using Okular, Adobe Reader, and XPDF without requesting any passwords, and can be read without problem.
Loading using iPDF - so poppler - requests a password to open the document.
I have tried bypassing the SecurityHandler:checkEncryption method in Poppler/SecurityHandler.cc, by making it return true. This works, but fails to load the pdf with errors:
Error: Unsupported version/revision (4/4) of Standard security handler
Error (13571568): Unknown compression method in flate stream
Error: Top-level pages object is wrong type (null)
Error: Couldn't read page catalog
(PV_E)PDFCore.cpp:61,open() Open PDF document (èÖ#(èÖ#à failed with error code 2
(PV_E)PDFApp.cpp:185,open() Could not open file!
This suggests that the actual stream is encrypted, which - if true - suggests that okular is somehow bypassing this.
I am aware of people having similar problems on other mobile devices (I found a similar report with a Nexus One).
I do not know enough about how the pdf format works to know whether there is some 'default' password that should be used instead to open (no other permissions needed) the document. Is there?
Is it a case that it is requesting the owner password, when it only needs to use the user password (blank?) to open it?
Else, does anyone know how something like Okular/XPDF would be able to open it without problem?
This turned out to be an issue with the version of poppler being used by the application being too old for the required security handler.
As such, I have started my own project to create a new pdf viewer for my iliad based on the latest (0.14.*) version of poppler which can handle it. Sources here.
I was considering diff Document Tracking options and came across DocTracking.com. DocTracking.com allows you to upload documents (PDF Word etc) and adds some kind of invisible tracking to it and returns the document to you which can then be used just like you would use the document otherwise. This tracking tells you when your documents were opened, who opened them (IP), geo-location of opening if they are re-opened or forwarded, what pages were read and how long it was read for, what was printed. Any leads on how this could be done would be appreciated.
It may be possible to embed an internet control/image into the document so get the client application to send an HTTP request to the server, which can use the request to identify the document and link it to the IP address (and consequently location). Various degrees of logic can be embedded for more sophistication.
Of course, the won't work if someone's Word, let's say, is firewalled.
That's one of the ways I can think of to make something like doctracking.com's system work. I doubt that there is anything built into Acrobat or Word to let a document stream data from the host PC, seems massively unsafe.